Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Polio Progress...
...Authorized by voice vote a full-scale ($300,000) inquiry into the current progress and goals of the foreign-aid program by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee -a sharp rebuke to the Administration for its badly muddled foreign-aid presentation this year...
...this most intractable question on the international level." The British government had finally agreed to the principle of self-determination for the Cypriots, Eden explained, but its valued ally Turkey would not stand for it. Therefore "Her Majesty's Government have to accept that for the moment progress by this means cannot be realized...
...commission, "is prompted by the lower self of men who are devoid of refined sentiments." Anticipating objections from the mullahs, the commission insisted that it was not amending the Koran-only reading it right. The commission then went on to grapple with the touchy and important problem of reconciling progress with religion in a nation whose principal basis for being was its Moslem faith. The commission appealed to the right of ijtihad, or exercise of individual judgment within the broad framework of the revealed word. Moslem law, said the commission, holds that in the Koran "what is not definitely prohibited...
...smoky orange glow of torchlight, thousands of Vietnamese paraded through Saigon's streets last week to mark a milestone in their young nation's progress. Daily for more than three months, while the army of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem restored order to the rebel-infested countryside, 123 elected representatives (six of them women) had sat on straight backed chairs in a dingy onetime French opera house in Saigon and hammered out the republic's first constitution. Now, as the nation celebrated Diem's second anniversary as Premier, the ten-chapter constitution was finished...